Iran sentenced French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah to five years in prison on national security charges Saturday, her lawyer said, adding that ...
France has been demanding for months that Iran release researcher Fariba Adelkhah, who has dual French-Iranian citizenship AFP/Thomas ARRIVETEHRAN: Iran sentenced French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah to five years in prison on national security charges Saturday , her lawyer said, adding that she plans to appeal.
Adelkhah has been severely weakened by a 49-day hunger strike she mounted between late December and February, her lawyer said. Following Adelkhah's hunger strike, her support committee expressed concern over her vulnerability to any outbreak of the coronavirus in the prison where she has been held. Arrests of foreign citizens have increased since the United States unilaterally withdrew from a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and major powers in 2018 and reimposed crippling sanctions.
A support committee, which was set up to campaign for their release, condemned Adelkhah's conviction and jail sentence as"Kafkaesque". Iran has been increasingly critical of European governments, particularly France, over their failure to do more to save the 2015 nuclear deal by enabling companies to get round renewed US sanctions."It's an opaque and arbitrary process and an utterly asymmetric bargaining situation because one of the protagonists is in jail."
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